Four, Divergent

Like his fellow Dauntless denizens, Four is emphatic about ink. The most significant of his many tats are the five running down his spine. Each one symbolizes a faction and, by extension, that faction’s chief virtue. By permanently marking himself with all of them, Four reminds himself to aspire to possess all five traits: ”I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest,” he tells Divergent’s heroine Tris. —Lanford Beard